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. . . are ever expressing a delightful array of manifest colors and forms from which each and every human being may gain some delight and may experience some pain.

Within this manifest universe there is both pleasure and pain. Both are a part and parcel of manifest existence. If one is to know beyond pleasure and pain one must move beyond the experience of temporal existence. In the realm of expression, in the realm of the expressed universe, the temporal universe there will be always be pleasure and pain, for that which you love and that which causes you pain are the very same. The things pass in the temporal world. They rise, express and pass away. That is the nature of temporal existence and within this manifest world of so many colors and forms there is a temporal existence from which you will derive much pleasure and which is also cause of your pain. But all of this once it is truly understood, once the nature of your existence is comprehended all of this manifest universe is but a play upon the screen of existence, it is only an illusion.

Within the manifest world, it has a relative reality, but in true there is only one reality, that is the pure undefinable awareness of infinite consciousness. All else is illusion. You may think you are a particular person, you may identify with your knowledge, with the task that you perform, with the people you love. You may identify with so many different types of experience you have had, you may identify with the physical body that you are wearing. But none of these things are you. You are beyond all of these. Even the personality you are wearing is not you. These are merely outer garments you have daunt for the event of your manifest existence. But you are far more, you are in fact that divine expression, only you have forgotten yourself and you have come to feel that you are something else. You have become lost in the illusionary play of manifest existence and taken it to heart, thinking you are other than yourself, thinking that you are a little person inside the little body

with the little life so many attachments, so many joys and sorrows. You believe this is you. You have forgotten who you are. You have forgotten what you are, for there is only one entity who exists in this entire creation and that one entity is Parama Purusa, the Supreme consciousness. That is all that exists. But that consciousness has been transformed into so many apparent variations, that all of these appearances are in fact as illusionary as any artificial expression. They are merely coverings which have been woven. Do not believe the illusion for Parama Purus'a is the master magician who has great skill in creating illusions and he has created illusion that this material universe is real. He has created the illusion that you are apparently separate entities existing individually apart from each other alone isolated individualized, attached to the physical body which will die. He has created this illusion and you, his own expression. He has divided himself into so many expressions and then playing the part in the drama he has created. He believes in the form of each and every individual, he believes his own illusion and in this individual forms he comes to think, I am separate, I am alone, I am created and I may die. But all of these is illusion. For there is only one entity who exists in this whole creation, only one, appearing to be many different beings, appearing to be many types of expressions, but all of these appearances are only the tricks of the master magician. He is so adapt at his magic that he makes himself to be all of the actors in the play, he writes the script of the play, he sets the props and he enacts the play. But what does he use for the actors, for the prompts? He uses his own consciousness. All of those who are acting in the play are only comp[composed of the consciousness of Parama Purus'a. They are composed of divine consciousness, each and every actor and all the prompts. But he is such a master magician, he can make his own consciousness appear so many different things and beings. But it is all his illusion. Yet he convinces the actors in his drama that they are in fact what he makes them appear to be, so that they may enact the drama of existence. That is drama, does not end with the death of the person, does not end with the change of a season, for there is nothing that can die and all the changes still exist.

Human being come and go in this world. All worldly existence comes and goes. It is his drama, his play. He is enacting within his own consciousness. So if you want to pierce the veil of illusion, if you want to perceive the reality behind the facade, the appearances which the master magician has projected, you will have to have very

keen insight. You will have to look very deeply, using your pinnacle intellect, that is to say, your concentrated mind, focused with deep intensity. From that deep single pointed concentration, you can focus the strength of the mind and use it like a knife to cut the veil to reality and this capacity is called vivek in Sanskrit or discrimination in English. It is the capacity to see the reality behind the illusions It is wise to cultivate this ability in your life, see the one who is the manipulator of the play, see the reality behind the illusion, know the nature of your won existence. Your individuality is an illusion. For reality of your existence is quite different than what it appears to be.

Pierce the veil and perceive your own self, one unbound, free, whole, never tainted, never bound. You have always been what you are and you will ever be all that you have perceived in the illusion in the outer reality is but a dream. Awake from the dream oh human beings and become what you are. There is only one. Destroy the illusions and be whole.